Bill Clinton
20 Years Ago: Media Saluted Hillary’s ‘Candid’ Scandal Fairy Tale
Twenty years ago this week, a compliant media elite aided Hillary Clinton's self-serving attempt to re-write the history of the Lewinsky scandal and her "vast right-wing conspiracy" smear of conservatives.
TIME's Cover Story Isn't News, It's a Gaseous Tank of Anti-Trump Rage
Here's a small sign that Time magazine has become less of a "news magazine" than ever. Their latest "cover story" is a short editorial by a former editor raging against Donald Trump, and how the entire spectacle of his indictment was a "crime scene."
Racist Trump, Wise Sharpton: PBS’s Hard-Left Hip-Hop Doc Spews Bad Rap
PBS’s four-part docuseries Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World, marking the 50th anniversary of the musical genre, was unapologetically leftist and political. Produced and hosted by rapper Chuck D., the series has featured musicians from Snoop Dogg to Jay Z to Eminem, with appearances by black professors, activists, and journalists, and….racial arsonist Al…
President’s Day Parade (of Quotes): Using History to Spin the News
Journalists love to use past presidents to measure today’s politicians, either to build up those who exemplify their historical liberal heroes, or to belittle conservatives with whom they disagree. Here’s a deep dive into the MRC’s archives showing how the media have used presidents from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to JFK as talking points in today’s political battles.
Reining in Government Spending? Let’s Get Real
Behind the refusal of the House Republican Party’s so-called freedom caucus to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is the caucus’s skepticism that he will actually “rein in government spending.” I’ve never quite understood why all Republicans do not belong to the Freedom Caucus. If the Republican Party supports low taxes, light regulations and strong national security, why is a Freedom…
Wishful Thinking! Todd Predicts GOP House Will Help Re-Elect Biden
During NBC’s Sunday Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd joined host Willie Geist to discuss the past week which of course included the days-long Speaker election in which Kevin McCarthy emerged victorious. Todd used his appearance to make a prediction that is both filled with wishful thinking and a lack of nuance in his analysis.
FLASHBACK: The Many Liberal Heroes of Barbara Walters
Longtime ABC News personality Barbara Walters died Friday at the age of 93. While she shouldn’t be confused with one of those classless left-wing hacks you see too much of in today’s media landscape (including on her daytime creation The View), Walters nonetheless exhibited a typical Manhattan liberalism that celebrated even the most flawed Democratic partisans.
30 Years Ago: The Media’s Shameless Coverage of the ’92 Campaign
Decades before the media’s embarrassing love affair with Barack Obama, or their open warfare against Donald Trump, there was the 1992 presidential campaign, when liberal journalists shamelessly promoted Bill Clinton’s candidacy and showed their contempt for George H. W. Bush.
CNN Poll Maven: Biden Looks Like A Loser For Congressional Dems
On New Day, CNN polling maven Harry Enten, analyzing the relationship between a president's approval rating and the results of his party in midterm House elections, says that Biden "looks like the losers."
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Praise Wet A** P**sy Song
Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea sat down with none other than Megan Thee Stallion where the trio painted canvases and had a chit-chat for the Clinton’s new Apple TV+ series, “Gutsy.” Naturally, mom and daughter had high praise for Megan Thee Stallion’s song, “Wet Ass P**y.”
FLASHBACK: Reich Once Claimed Biden $1.9T Stimulus Wasn’t Inflationary
Clinton stooge Robert Reich has just as much of a sordid record in his coverage on the inflation crisis as leftist economist Paul Krugman.
CBS Hypes Biden Following Line of Presidential Late Night Appearances
Led by White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe, the cast of Thursday’s CBS Mornings reacted to President Biden’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! not by lamenting Biden only sitting down for softball interviews, but that Biden was following in the history of presidents using late night shows to appear more relatable.
Government Propaganda, American Style
As with many things, propaganda can be used for good or for ill, depending on who dispenses it. During World War II, American propaganda was considered a necessary tool in the pursuit of victory in a moral cause. Germany and Japan had their own propaganda machines to advance an evil agenda. The Nazi propaganda effort was headed by Joseph Goebbels to whom the term “The Big Lie,” meaning if one…